A billion here, a billion there, sooner or later it adds up to real money.
More Quotes from Everett Dirksen:
Mr. President, there is no royal road to a balanced budget. If there is, I have never discovered it in all the time I have been dealing with the millions of little figures that come to us in what looks like an unexpurgated mail-order catalog but what we call the budget of the United States, which contains some 1,100 pages.Everett Dirksen
When a member of the House moves over to the Senate, he raises the IQ of both bodies.
Everett Dirksen
A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.
Everett Dirksen
When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires of those who dwell there.
Everett Dirksen
Here we are considering an amendment increasing an already huge appropriation by 1,000,000,000. It is like using a teaspoon in order to get a few taxes into the Treasury and at the same time at the back door using a scoop shovel to shovel them out.
Everett Dirksen
We have been through this is biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years, and now it appears that we are going through this quiet agony all over again.
Everett Dirksen
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